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A story in today’s Gazette shows the terrible power of celebrity, and that like most of us, we believe it when somebody ‘famous’ wants something big. Matt Pilon wrote about a late night visit to Antonio’s Pizza in Amherst by a man wearing backstage credentials for the Bob Dylan show […]
Some writers inspire me, others make me envious that they are so talented at lining up just the perfect words. I laughed out loud at the cafe while reading Dan Neil’s review of the new Mercedes CL63 AMG. Here is a snip, as he describes opening up the throttle on […]
What’s the most important thing to me about our website? I think that has to be the impact we have on so many people and that we make their lives richer as a result of the stories we publish. Some people get great joy in getting in the news a […]
After a conference like this my group of webmaster pals and I all came away with the same feeling. Whoa, we’ve got so much work to do! That happens when you hear from a kid who graduated from MIT in 2010, and now has VC backers providing millions for a […]
Rob Solomon the COO of Groupon stunned the audience with his figures. It’s the fastest growing company in history, and in just nine months they’ve grown from 100 to 3000 employees. Now they offer their amazing deals by email in 30 countries. I know anecdotally that it really works…at least […]
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Ten years ago, Rich Barton was the CEO of Expedia, which at that time was the dominant travel fare search website. Today at Phocuswright, a clip was played of a young Barton up on stage being asked a question by investor Carl Icahn, about reading a balance sheet. In the […]
If there is one topic that most people are comfortable talking about it’s weather. In fact, it’s a topic that generates more interest than almost anything else. Tonight I got a chance to meet a man who has made weather his occupation. Chuck Prewitt is one of the owners of […]
I’m in that frenzied state impending airline travel brings on. It’s a giddy feeling of anxiousness over what I might forget, and a bit of excitement about taking to the skies again. You know you’re a real traveler when the latter trumps the former, and you’ve got your trip on. […]
Sometimes when I think the Valley is ahead of the game when it comes to local eating and food trends, I get taken aback by a great idea that nobody has brought here yet. I found out about how some people around the country are enjoying their lives as “lazy […]
Louis Zamperini set the world record for surviving at sea when he was shot out of the sky in 1944 and lasted 47 days on a raft. This alone might qualify the man for fame, but his story was the stuff of legend and he even wrote two books about […]
This is a photo by Jean Spoljaric in her new story about Enshi China. Just another great month of writing from GoNOMAD!